Edited: 5:07PM November 3, 2008

A few hours ago, Sarah Bacon, Yahoo Messenger's Product Manager, posted a post asking for Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 users to submit feedback. Don't worry if you are on XP, the message is toward the Vista users of Y! IM 9.0.

Most of us who are on Vista and use Yahoo Messenger have heard that the new Yahoo Messenger for Vista was discontinued. If you don't know yet, you can read more about that on the Yahoo Messenger Blog here. Well back to the point, Yahoo Messenger 9.0 has been a bit buggy for some Vista users. Though I can't complain much about it since I've just had one time that it went buggy on me. I don't know what happened but it worked normally afterwards.

Lately, almost every post that the Yahoo Messenger team or Sarah Bacon has posted has been heckled with Vista users begging and sometimes being a bit vulger about Yahoo bringing back the canceled Yahoo Messenger for Vista. The fight over the messenger has gotten out of the user's finger tips to "get-what's-given-to-you." This is the lowest I've ever seen Yahoo treat their members and users.

But oh well, everything in the world is now "Don't like it? Don't use it."

If you want more information, you can go to the Yahoo Messenger Blog or if you are already having crash issues with the 9.0 version on Vista you can e-mail Yahoo and send them what happened, what you were doing when it happened and if it's fixed what you did to fix the issue to vistatesting@yahoo.com. Remember feedback is crucial. It can even make 9.0 better for all :)

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Honestly, I was looking for a big time messenger that was going to out beat all Yahoo!'s past and other popular messengers out there. That came to an end as the Yahoo! Messenger team abruptly ended the Yahoo! Messenger for Vista project. Apparently, they stopped the process because it was taking resources to make a casual messenger (Yahoo! Messenger 9) better.

People that have commented on the Yahoo! Messenger blog have posted mixed opinions. From blaming Vista, to blaming Yahoo! on being too weak.

My opinion on all this is the following. I think the Yahoo! Messenger team WAS too weak. The fact that creating such a powerful messenger was just too much for the team. Not only that, I think the "team" is just a few members, 10 at most. Though it is hard to build a software from the ground up, it must have been done. Yahoo! is the last messenger giant that I'd expect to back off. This really puts them on a low spot, starting something millions of loyal users found interesting and used then just scraped it. This is a low move for Yahoo! Messenger.

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